Brian Hancock, Esq.

Brian Hancock is the Chief Operating Officer at Robins’ Nest, a private, nonprofit 501(C) (3), children’s services organization dedicated to ensuring the safety of children and enhancing their well-being in a family setting through a wide array of quality community-based residential and in-home services. Prior to this position, Mr. Hancock, as Deputy Division Director for the New Jersey Division of Child Behavioral Health, was responsible for policy, research, training and planning for New Jersey’s child mental health system, which serves 40,000 children annually. Previously, he was a senior assistant child advocate in the New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate, where he oversaw the Office’s juvenile justice advocacy and was a principal investigator and author of the Office’s report on conditions for children with mental health needs in the state’s juvenile detention centers. Mr. Hancock has done humanitarian and advocacy work with at-risk and incarcerated youth across the United States, and in Mexico, Ireland and Ukraine. He has received several awards for his work; including the Embracing the Legacy award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps., and the Spirit of Crazy Horse award from Reclaiming Youth International. Mr. Hancock received a B.A., cum laude, from Wheaton College, and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law.